Forgiveness, when viewed through the lens of relational ethics, is not a sentimental gesture nor a moral concession granted to the offender. It is a structural realignment within the relational field — a deliberate re‑opening of the space in which persons may again appear to one another without distortion. The Wisdom of Sirach, with its […]

Sin, in relational ethics, is not an act committed against an abstract moral code, nor a violation of a metaphysical order imposed from above. It is, rather, a disturbance within the fabric of relations that constitute the very possibility of ethical life. To speak of sin is to speak of a fracture in the field […]